Word: desertic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grams were being measured out in place of micrograms. By last July 12, the scientists were ready to test their product. In an old ranch house on the New Mexican desert southeast of Albuquerque, a company of jittery men watched Cornell Physicist Robert Bacher assemble the first atomic bomb. At one point a vital part jammed. The scientists gasped but were coolly reassured by Bacher...
...Fohn Wind, a warm dry wind which blows down the sides of many mountain ranges, has long been notorious for producing . . . irritability and quarrelsomeness." Some desert-dwellers are always irritable. (Humidity produces the same effect in rats-TIME, June...
...This desert-fighting phase first brought out in Wavell an urge to express himself Biblically to his officers, a habit he developed to a high degree in his later Middle East campaigns. For a warning against unexpected rainy seasons in desert climates, he drew on Elijah's message to Ahab in I Kings, 18:44 ("Prepare thy chariot and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not"). The danger of floods in Palestine he underlined with a quotation from Jeremiah 12:5 ("How wilt thou do in the swelling of the Jordan?"). The folly of expecting military assistance...
Four thousand miles of all-but-harborless coast and the width of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal shut off the Indian subcontinent from the western desert world of Semites and the eastern twilight world of Annamese, Cambodians and Malays. Along the north, the highest mountains in the world, the Himalayas, walled off India from the mass of Asia...
...Desert Fox. In 1917, Wavell was sent to Palestine to join the staff of Lord Allenby, master of desert warfare and conqueror of the Turks. The association marked a turning point in Wavell's career. He emerged from the campaign with: 1) an intense admiration for the military genius of Allenby, which later flowered in the biography, Allenby: A Study in Greatness; 2) two hard-won Turkish nicknames -"the desert fox" and "the greatest bloodhound." In a terse footnote in his poetry anthology. Other Men's Flowers, Wavell recalls how Lord Allenby, who had just received news...